R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
Cricket Player
1901 – 1965
Who was R. C. Robertson-Glasgow?
Raymond Charles 'Crusoe' Robertson-Glasgow was a Scottish cricketer and cricket writer.
Convivial, popular and humorous, Robertson-Glasgow was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played for Oxford University and Somerset. During his career, which lasted from 1920 to 1937, he took 464 wickets at 25.77 in first-class cricket, with best innings figures of 9-38.
He subsequently won acclaim for his writing, in which his strong sense of humour shone through. In 1933 he became cricket correspondent for the Morning Post. He later wrote for the Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Sunday Times, and was the author of many books, including:
⁕Cricket Prints: Some Batsmen and Bowlers.
⁕More Cricket Prints - Some Batsmen and Bowlers
⁕46 Not Out - an autobiography
⁕Rain Stopped Play
⁕The Brighter Side of Cricket.
⁕All In The Game
⁕How To Become A Test Cricketer
⁕Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
He also wrote the following non-cricket books:
⁕I was Himmler's Aunt
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- Born
- Jul 15, 1901
Murrayfield - Nationality
- England
- Scotland
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Died
- 1965
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on July 23, 2013
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